skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some places I’ve been, the sidewalk and road are separated by mature trees, with bushes between the trees. It enforces safety, adds distance between cars and pedestrians, and adds ample shade.

In intersections, pedestrian islands are protected by bollards. In Singapore for example many of the busiest roads even have pedestrian bridges.

It’s a major contrast with my experience of California, where any non-automobile transportation method is an extremely hostile experience. Pedestrians and bicyclists are truly second class citizens on the roads unfortunately.
The American obsession with race is deeply rooted in historically having a large, enslaved underclass that was kept down using racial justifications and against which there is still measurable bias across all areas of life (hiring, police stops, criminal sentencing, etc.)

It’s not unique to America but it is a major differentiator from other countries.

A key thing to note is that many homogeneous countries are extremely racist but don’t notice it because it doesn’t hugely impact day to day life. A mot-so-malicious example of this is that when my brother went to Korea to teach English, the parents wanted him (a white man) instead of the Asian American who was born in America and also going to the same Ivy League school. Obviously there are much less fun examples of racism but that one was… interesting. In the US that level of open racial preference would have been considered socially unacceptable, especially among the upper middle class college set.
In 40 years I have no seen such usage in print
Yes. I regularly use F2 and F3. F1 help I cannot remember the last time I used it. I also get irritated by windows applications that do not use F3 for find next. I do not use F4 without a control or alt combo though...
very cool, thanks for putting this together

It would be great to see a page dedicated to SoTA techniques & results
If there are a fixed number of slots, actually filtering without considering those criteria and yet ending up with a ‘good’ set of numbers based on those criteria is actually impossible.

Regardless of any additional outreach being performed.

It’s basic analysis.
* Postwar surplus of machine tools and experience with metal manufacturing processes.

* Lack of injection-molded thermoplastic suitable for much more than toys.

* Relatively high labor costs may have reduced incentives to save money on materials.

* Consumers accustomed to paying higher prices for manufactured goods with the expectation that they would be repairable and last a long time.

* Tube-based electronics tended to require high voltages and heavy transformers or batteries. This dictated the form of the enclosure (metal or wood) and its usage (non-portable). For example, radios made for consumers would typically be incorporated into furniture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penistone
How about simply paying the maintainers and then getting stuff done like the classical business does.
this is great, thank you so much

i didn't realize that tesseract had improved so much!
Devils advocate: the apostrophe isn’t pronounced. The s is.
Drug resistant bacteria found on ISS mutating to become functionally distinct
Gardening is one of those things where grassroots efforts really do have an outsized effect. An oasis of nature can make a big difference.
GPT-4 is absolutely incredible and even if we never get beyond it the world is a much better place with it than without it. It makes total sense to bet on the team that made this being the best placed people in the world to advance it.
> You can disagree all you want.

Thanks!
i don't know if you should admit to that last one, you might have to hide from people who program cplds
When did I ever say that the children of wealthy alumni should be prioritised?

I'm not assuming that the wealthy are there by merit, I'm assuming that the competent are.

And yes, universities will admit the idiot sons of the rich, just because of a donation - but that's an entirely different conversation to one regarding the prioritisation of the children of alumni who already proved themselves to be useful.
This comment does not make sense in reply to this question...where did they say anything about evaluation, the point they made is the difference it made is their advisor doing outreach.
The current AI wave is a perfect application of Conway's law: the bullshit industry has generated the perfect bullshit machines, pretending to show intelligence when they only parrot what they've heard elsewhere - badly but convincingly.
"With XML you can do anything!"
Not only does Israel target journalists, but it targets the families of journalists.

Nobody is immune not even the bureau chief of Al Jezeera.
FYI for the Mac Mini idea, I have an M1 Macbook Pro with 32gb. There's some sort of limitation on how much ram can be allocated to the GPU. Trying to run even a 22gb ram model will fail. The best I've gotten is Code Llama 34B 3-bit at 18.8gb. There can be tons of RAM still empty but the LLM will just infinite loop dropping a chunk of RAM and reloading from disk.
bollards don't have to be Brutalist utilitarian objects.

one could, for example, make light poles actually intended to wreck cars that trespass into pedestrian spaces. Target's bollards look decent IMO.
Unicode 16: Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement [pdf]
Is this all speculation? Got a source for some of these big claims? Admittedly, it's a fun read.
Computers then were like computers now... It's one thing to get python to spit out an answer to your problem, but it's quite a bit harder to be sure it's spitting out the right answer.

If I was the supervisor in the above situation, I wouldn't let them cut those corners, since it's far more important to get the right answer when $2B of project could be led down totally the wrong path if a calculation tells you you need 10x less/more uranium than reality because someone shuffled up some punch cards wrong...
Feels a little bit like making people take anti-theft pledges. I don't think anyone could reasonably expect that theft would be prevented by someone pledging not to engage in it yet it might be tricky to publicly remove because "what are you, pro-theft!?!"

Similar to DEI training in general which doesn't appear to do too much. It should be argued that "we shouldn't do these trainings" yet you also don't want to be the one saying that.

What does appear to work is a company actually hiring and promoting skilled diverse individuals and not just their buds.
C is okay except safety. Look at the CVE lists and they are still full of memory errors and it’s 2024.

The problem isn’t that good programmers can’t write good C code, though anyone can make a mistake. The problem is what happens as code ages, is worked on by other people, gets PRs merged, and so on. Bugs creep in and in an unsafe language nothing catches them.

C also makes string processing hellish, but that could be fixed with libraries and isn’t necessarily the fault of the language.
They have to hold something. They hold us treasuries now. They don’t want that when they go to war over Taiwan but it takes time to switch. They’re probably shifting massive amounts of cash into all stable alternatives.
Hope something develops in this front. I grew up drinking soda with bad teeth genetically. I also had a period when I was seriously ill where I was barely brushing. The teeth are swiss cheese and I wish there was something I could do other than rip them all out and look 20 years older. I'm only in my early 30s so it's really distressing. :(
We do. I literally just had to submit a statement to this effect to the NSF. The GP is spouting uninformed opinions and then patting themselves on the back for being an "outsider".
As someone who has smelled both horse shit and car exhaust on many occasions, I’d choose horse shit any day. It just smells like old wet hay (because that’s what it essentially is).
Just because something is higher quality does not mean it has higher subjective value. E.g. i still think i come out ahead with cheap clothes and a laptop then someone 100 years ago with higher quality clothes.
is median family income a good measure since it represents the cost of R&D?
My thought immediately went to Linus Torvalds. The way he acted was tolerated in the past, but the culture was changed and it was used to force a change onto the project.

Same thing with all of those Codes of Conduct that suddenly propped up.
This post is not going to age well. In fact, when GPT-5 comes out soon it's going to look positively dumb.

Also GPT-4 is still leaps and bounds more capable than the competition. Anyone pushing large-language models to their limits today can easily attest to that. Claude 3 Opus comes close, but is significantly more expensive and much harder to do function calling with.
On lice/louse:

When it's plural as in "lice" it's an obvious problem to be eradicated.

But why in the singular form of "louse" do I suddenly imagine a Fantastic Mr. Fox character? A little guy holding a tiny briefcase waiting for the bus in Louse Land.

It should be the opposite, because looking at lots of them is like "Ahh rolly pollies! Cool!"

But if you zoom in on one's face... you notice some ancient trilobyte Alien 3 finger fangs rapidly shoving microbes into its pie hole, who knows what kind of monster this thing is to all the hapless beings down on its level.

The spider doesn't care about any of this shit, he's just like: "Not in my house, louse." before spinning him up in his butt threads and draining his blood like a literal vampire.

Nature is awesome.
Yes. But I predict we will eventually realize that's what humans do too.
What if you combine the two, use Whisper for accuracy and Google for diarization?
I've never understood this xkcd. The depicted situation only ever comes up under hilariously contrived threat models, and is not a reason not to use the best encryption you can get even under those models. So right back at you: prove me wrong, outline some realistic "evil plans" where the $5 wrench is the best option.

Under most threat models for most people (even spicy ones), good encryption with lots of features such as deniability, makes perfect sense.

What's the importance of the secret you're holding?

If it's primarily financial (e.g. keys to your BitCoin wallet), then encryption is obviously a great idea. A lot more people are capable of theft for financial gain (especially theft that doesn't require physical presence and you might not even learn about until much later!) than robbery which requires the physical presence of an assailant. This also holds for government-level threats: a rogue border guard might copy your financial information and sell it to the highest bidder, but they're very unlikely to beat you for it on camera, even in countries where human rights are a secondary consideration. And if you're afraid of being robbed, well, you can always secret-share and keep the other half of your key in a secure bank vault, or have somebody send it later in the mail. And you should still use the best encryption you can get!

If your adversary instead has the motive to keep something suppressed (e.g. evidence against Dear Leader), then they don't need to get the keys at all, they can just seize your hard drive and secure erase it. They'll probably still beat, jail or kill you afterwards, but that would still have happened without the encryption.

If you're protecting somebody or something (e.g. the hard drive reveals the location of the planned attack on Dear Leader, or a promotion list of people involved in the upcoming coup), then plausible fake information is both easy to create and is very valuable - the people you're protecting might have escaped, or the true plot might be fait accompli by the time they realise you've given them fake data and the wrenches come out.

If the government stops you and does not even know that you're a person of interest, then... well, that's the textbook use case for deniable encryption, and if you do it right, they'll never realize that you were the person of interest all along.

If you're protecting something that's more valuable than your life (e.g. nuclear launch codes) then you at least get the option to endure the wrench. And if the encryption is crackable by a sufficiently large computer, your adversary _will_ build that computer, so you should still use good encryption. And for the love of God, invest in some guys with guns to shoot the idiot who brings a $5 wrench to a gunfight! And use encryption that's significantly more expensive to break than winning that gunfight would be.
It's a trap (especially early in a project where a lot of things are simplified placeholders) to prematurely combine previously decoupled parts of a system due to some superficial similarities. "Hey, so our 'customer' object and our 'stock_item' object both have ID, name, comment, and location code, we should have a 'handled_entity' table to store both of them." No, bad!
ChatGPT is fantastic for writing DEI statements.
I mean, that’s too reductive. LLM’s can do all kinds of things, not just generate bullshit.
Cameras only catch criminals after the fact. Bollards directly save lives. In the example here, even if the law is a potential deterrent, killing a person was only punished with three years in prison. Bollards work even if the courts don’t.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. Until then, we have bollards.
> killer robots won't care about your race

that is not necessarily true... while i agree with most of your sentiment, this statement is specifically why I believe everyone is racist, and nobody knows how racist they are if they only live in a homogeneous place. "this" being not understanding that being race-blind also being blind to correcting disparate treatment.

Regardless, DEI went off too far in the track of identity politics instead of correcting all forms of socioeconomic disparity so wtv. I am not surprised that you could not see the best argument in all the noise and the chaos.
Tangentially related: https://youtu.be/JRbnBc-97Ps?si=EJ8d3SVc7sy9_gc9

Not Just Bikes on speed limits.
"ripgrep + find -exec jq" what does this imply?
TL;DR - a dystopia where anyone with an "advantage" is "handicapped" to make everyone "equal". Advantages such as intelligence and beauty must not be used to let anyone get ahead.

It was adapted into a short film - 2081 - and it's very very good. It's free on this site: https://www.teaching2081.org/watch-the-film#form
The term "white privilege" is a bit of a misnomer. What it's mean to convey is the fact that a white person is much less likely to get passed over for something than a person of color. It doesn't mean an actual privilege, more the lack of a hardship.

That doesn't mean one didn't experience hardship, just that it's unlikely to have been due to the color of your skin.
Those retractable bollards blew me away when I visited Germany, they looked so sensible and durable.

That's a commitment to walk-drive balance
That's not the definition of a colony at all. UK citizens still need to go through immigration to live in Canada, even though the official head of state there is King Charles III.
If you really believe that, i would suggest you go into the GPU business.
Took the same path recently. Probably the easiest thing to point to if you're looking for something to convince people of Al Jazeera's nature, (besides specific articles), is the incredible amount of time and editorial space devoted to Yusuf al-Qaradawi on the arabic channel (before his death). The man had an audience of 60 million people for a decade and a half, and could reasonably be called the face of Al Jazeera Arabic. He has caused a lot of problems through that platform that hopefuly only the most radicalized westerner won't view as monstrous.

Probably no one who needs convincing is willing to read the ADL on him, but you can basically pick your source.

https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/Sheik-Yusuf-al-Qarad...

Here's a video of him asserting that "Hitler was a god given punishment upon the Jews, (not that the holocaust was as bad as they say)" on Al Jazeera TV.

https://www.memri.org/tv/sheik-yousuf-al-qaradhawi-allah-imp...

I guess you have to trust Memri's translation?
Yes, I have worked on migrating such servers myself once upon a time, but the parent is not arguing about minorities:

> I bet a significant portion of systems will not be upgraded

And regardless, nothing Debian does or does not do is going to make a difference to all of the issues of running EOLed OS versions.
Helldivers 2 Game Gets Pulled from Steam in 170 Countries
I assumed it was hyperbole on the GP's part.
He can go ahead and create openai, the second he creates it however, it should be taken away from him and become public domain or we need to have a change in system, a true AGI should be able to automate every single industry if so then, I think everyone knows what system is the only one left to implement once humans are no longer required to work and every single factory/company produces much higher output
> I've written a BASH function which will produce a pivot table of the most active contributors in any given git repository.

What?

> FFMPEG doesn't support using dav1d for encoding

Cause it's a decoder, not a codec..

I was hoping this would go into detail about how to encode AV1 video, like the Xiph articles about Daala: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo4.shtml

It's just downloading and trying out some encoders and decoders.
Aren't LLMs a classification problem in a sense? "Given this text, classify it based on the next token" seems like a viable interpretation of the problem. Although there are a couple thousand or so classes, which might be a lot (but I know very little about this field).
That's quite a take.

The reason for funding was to create chaos, not to remove it. Why else do you fund a group that destabilises the area. Basically Israel wanted Gaza to be more chaotic as they felt it gave them more control.

The decision to pursue power and chaos as opposed to seeking resolution and a path to peace has had obvious consequences.
We already have a word for "STEAM": "Academia". Unless you don't consider, say, History an art or a science, in which case, why do you hate historians so much that you'd make up an acronym that basically means "not you specifically"?
The hubbub began to subside slowly as Major – de Coverley paused in the doorway with a frown of puzzled disapproval, as though viewing something bizarre. He started forward in a straight line, and the wall of officers before him parted like the Red Sea. Glancing neither left nor right, he strode indomitably up to the steam counter and, in a clear, full-bodied voice that was gruff with age and resonant with ancient eminence and authority, said:

‘Gimme eat.’

Instead of eat, Corporal Snark gave Major – de Coverley a loyalty oath to sign. Major – de Coverley swept it away with mighty displeasure the moment he recognized what it was, his good eye flaring up blindingly with fiery disdain and his enormous old corrugated face darkening in mountainous wrath.

‘Gimme eat, I said,’ he ordered loudly in harsh tones that rumbled ominously through the silent tent like claps of distant thunder.

Corporal Snark turned pale and began to tremble. He glanced toward Milo pleadingly for guidance. For several terrible seconds there was not a sound. Then Milo nodded.

‘Give him eat,’ he said.

Corporal Snark began giving Major – de Coverley eat. Major – de Coverley turned from the counter with his tray full and came to a stop. His eyes fell on the groups of other officers gazing at him in mute appeal, and, with righteous belligerence, he roared:

‘Give everybody eat!’

‘Give everybody eat!’ Milo echoed with joyful relief, and the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade came to an end.

(From Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Longer passage here: https://mathematicalcrap.com/2022/08/14/the-great-loyalty-oa... )
LLM can _pretend_ to do all kinds of things, and fall flat on their face as soon as they can't fake it.
You're listing widely used products, not great products. Fast food is not great just because it's popular.
My comment history about Sam Altman being a snake is aging well.
>History defining amounts of money being spent on AI

What could go wrong.
The SAT thing was wild. I have no idea why people thought making the admissions criteria more opaque and fudge-able would help prevent bias and racism.

I saw the same thing at a company I worked at where they found at that Black people were getting lower performance ratings and there were people in the Diversity interest group advocating getting rid of numeric ratings so, you know, instead of knowing there was bias we would… not know? Like maybe it was a management psy-op or something but that was insane.
Approximately 8 billion people have accomplished less in their lives than Sam Altman... maybe criticize them instead? And so what if he's selling a vision of the future? That's a large part of entrepreneurship.
please explain how you can truly support something like 404020 different OS, architecture, toolchain, and programming languages without automated regression testing every single one of them. and then please tell me what system can run this testing because i would love to see that.
I don't understand why people are so eager to lap up this crap.
I mean that's just describing a solid half of Hacker News comments on any given subject.
I just compiled and uploaded dillo 3.0.5 for NetBSD/m68k... Now I need to try 3.1.0!
I wish I had a percentage of your childish optimism
Sticky sessions are supported: https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/reverse_pr..., and yes it's pluggable so you could write your own LB policy. Very easy, just copy the code from Caddy's source to write your own plugin. Let us know if you need help.

Also yes, Caddy does service discovery if you use https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy, configuration via Docker labels. Or you can use dynamic upstreams (built-in) https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/reverse_pr... to use A/AAAA or SRV DNS records to load your list of upstreams.
Amsterdam has many city-themed bollards along the city center streets to delimit the pedestrian part. Although they’re not deeply seated into the ground and will topple if a car hits them (but I guess they’re menacing enough to keep drivers from speeding).
Ask HN: Why are paywalled articles on HN mostly available on an archive link?
Accomplishing more != Benefiting Humanity
Hard to take Gary seriously calling out "outlandish claims" with "no substance" when he does the same thing in the opposite direction.

Garbage article for clicks to pay for his lifestyle, now that he's grifted his way into being an "AI Expert" paid to pontificate with no skin in the game.
It would depend. If the voicemails were pertinent to the ongoing litigation, the counsel for the party responsible for the legal hold might be required to ensure those voicemails are retained. The legal hold isn't "preserve anything that's convenient to retain". If they can't be retained, they shouldn't be left, and it's the job of the legal team to make sure that's conveyed.
I would assume it’s precisely because it’s a precise and accurate description. Given the current climate.
In my experience, most invocations of Israel's right to exist are not functionally asking people to extend some generally accepted principle to Israel, but rather demanding that they accept Israel's existence as axiomatic. My response is usually something along the lines of "I'm not sure any state has a right to exist, or that it's even a meaningful concept to apply to political entities rather than people".

That's often not productive in terms of continuing the conversation, but I'm not trying to be clever or evasive; I genuinely don't understand why I should accept the premise of the question.